Monday, October 21, 2013

Routine Day And Costco Facts

I had the most awesome surprise email last night from a reader, Sandi, who started reading our blog while we were in Texas. She sincerely thanked me for taking the time to write a daily blog and mentioned some of the things she liked best about our blog—I was totally taken aback—it made my day without a doubt!!

It’s just been a routine day around here with lots of wind, sunshine and warmer temps. Just look how much of the snow is gone in this photo of Red and Roan (aren’t we original in our horse names??).

Nat came up for lunch and we ate well once again—he too liked the apple cake! I spent the day loading Karen’s quilt and have started the quilting process. It’s looking good Karen!

As Michael was surfing the internet early this morning he read some amazing Costco facts to me:

1. Costco sells 69 million roasted chickens at $5 each every year!!!!! Do the math, that’s $345 million in chickens alone!!! Guess this salmonella scare is putting a dent in the profits??

2. Costco sell $1.4 billion in wine per year with more than half of the sold wine being fine wines.

3. More than 400 of the original 1,000+ employees from its founding in 1983 are still at Costco today.

4. Costco sells 100 million per year of their $1.50 hotdog/soda combinations.

We are diehard Costco fans, don’t buy many rotisserie chickens but we do seem to buy our share of wine!

Yes another great day in Montana. I am not sure because I have never seen them but Costco in Canada sells the best Chicken Wings ever. They also have a great Chicken Pot Pie. I see they Sell them at the Costco here but they are Huge. In Canada's Costco they are the size of a normal pie and wow are they ever good.

About Me

Mike is a retired rancher/construction company owner. Janna is a retired registered nurse. We met almost 20 years ago and in spite of sounding corny, it was love at first sight. We have been truly blessed in our lives together.
We enjoy being outdoors with our little Schnauzer, Emmi.
Janna loves to quilt, cook, and read. Mike builds furniture, researches "stuff" on the computer and is a Sudoku pro. He is also the chief mechanic for all our older stuff such as the 1996 Country Coach motor home we now travel in! We love retirement!